Now that you have SF what would you do without it?

AZ Jim

AZ Jim

R.I.P. With Us In Spirit Only
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I spend a lot of time here and I have come to think of my fellow members as friends. I have moved around so much that I lost old friends either to the moving or death. As I age I find myself more confined and it's harder to make new real time friends. So, you guys have become my friends. How about you? How important is SF to you?
 

Perhaps I would feel the same way if I was older and didn't get out much. But for me, this forum is just a form of entertainment when inside. Just like other sites on the internet. I do like the board though.
 
Well, I do get out a lot and I travel a LOT. But SF friends are still important to me. I check in with my breakfast every day, even before FB.
 

Bullie76 said:
Perhaps I would feel the same way if I was older and didn't get out much. But for me, this forum is just a form of entertainment when inside. Just like other sites on the internet. I do like the board though.
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I envy people who have spent most of their adult lives in one place and have the friends to prove it. I had the same luck in High School. My folks moved so much I almost never got a second year in any one school. Every school year, new school, new friends, new kid on the block. I missed much.
 
Ditto to what Annie said above.

I do get out a lot, I do travel, and I still work, but the friends I've made on SF are important to me as well...and I'd be sad if it wasn't here..
 
AZ Jim said:
I envy people who have spent most of their adult lives in one place and have the friends to prove it. I had the same luck in High School. My folks moved so much I almost never got a second year in any one school. Every school year, new school, new friends, new kid on the block. I missed much.
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I'm a navy brat and we moved a lot and I hated it, especially since I was shy.
 
We moved...7 different times by the time I was 14...and that doesn't include the childrens' homes I was put into for up to 3 months at a time due to my mother's inability to look after us due to illness, and then when I was 21, I became a Navy wife..and we moved approx every 12 months until he left the Navy and we divorced.
 
Well, SF became my friend and all it contained. Even in Politics when I argue with Ole BobF...I like him. He's my friend too.
 
I stay with my S.O. on weekends and rarely check in as I'm more active then. Also, I go to yoga classes three days a week and am now taking some classes in eastern religions too. So I may not be checking in as often as some members. But I do think of my SF friends as "real" friends and miss them when they go on vacation or take a break. I try to check in whenever I can.
 
I am the same Jim. I have a need to express my self and share my thoughts on a number of things. Ordinarily I would do this face to face with a friend or associate, but I have no close friends or associates to do that with so SF fills that void. I get out and about every day but generally by my self.
 
I changed schools quite a few times as I was growing up, my parents moved often until I was about 12. The neighborhood we moved to was new and lots of the kids were in the same boat as me, so we stuck together. As an adult I found making friends easy and had a wide variety, even though I moved a lot too. It's only after retirement that things quieted down and I'm more of a 'homebody'. Friends moved away or passed away, I don't move in the same circles anymore and I can't 'take' some people like I used to. I think this forum offers pretty easygoing interactions that are fun and not too demanding, I can pop in and out anytime without explanations and see what's up and if there's anything I want to contribute. By and large I've enjoyed my time here, its usually light and friendly and most people are very nice.
 
Just to amplify my original point, in moving one loses friends so what place does SF have in your life. For me, it is most of my friends, right here.
 
AZ Jim said:
I envy people who have spent most of their adult lives in one place and have the friends to prove it. I had the same luck in High School. My folks moved so much I almost never got a second year in any one school. Every school year, new school, new friends, new kid on the block. I missed much.
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Funny thing, my best friend from childhood through the 9th grade moved to Phoenix. His dad was an electrician and Phoenix was booming in those days so they made the move. We kept up with each other for a couple of years, but lost touch. Reconnected through Facebook not long ago. Hope to see him and his family down the road.

I would imagine moving every couple of years as a child would be tough. I did move within my city as a child which put me in a different school district. That was a little tough the first semester, not knowing anyone. But not the same as you experienced. I still live in the town I grew up in and have many of the same friends from elementary school. That is nice and one reason I will probably always keep my main residence here. I have thought about moving to my beach condo as it is much prettier there, but would lose touch with my old friends. I'm not the out going type to make a lot of friends there(have made some), so plan to split my time between the two.
 
I went from Oregon to Illinois to Iowa to Nebraska, back to Iowa, all before settling in Arkansas.
 

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